Cumulative collecting experience....

[ethicsprof]

'57-'77
'82-'10

'round 49 years

best,
barry

[Publius]

0 years collecting baseball, 17 years collecting football cards

I wanted football to represent!!

[HTBB]

started at 10 yrs old

1953 - 1960 cards
1975 - 2010 cards and memorabilia

still going - sort of - at 67 yrs old

Approx 42 years

Mike Ellis

[btkpath]

Hard to believe that at age 45 I am one of the babies of the group in terms of years collecting. For me, I make a distinction between accumulating cards when I was a kid (mostly in the '70s) and collecting cards (with an eye to value, card condition, eye appeal, completing sets and historical perspective). Having said that, I have been collecting for the past 5 years and have enjoyed sharing the hobby with my family and friends. I no longer have to worry where any disposable income will go. I'll get off the soapbox now.

[ValKehl]

1955 - 1960 as a kid.
Resurrected my collection, which Mom didn't throw away (she was going to do this sometime in the late 1970s, but fortunately, she first called and asked me if I still wanted them!) sometime in the mid to late 1980s, and been at it ever since.
Total of 25 - 30 years.